| Forever Filly | |
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| Season №: | 7 |
| Season episode №: | 6 |
| Overall episode №: | 149 |
| Original airdate: | May 6, 2017[aired early in Canada] May 13, 2017 (Discovery Family) |
| Written by: | Michael P. Fox and Wil Fox |
| Storyboard: | Marta Demong and Desirae Salmark |
| Featured characters: | Sweetie Belle Zipporwhill |
| See also | |
| credits • transcript • gallery • allusions animation errors • statistics • speculation | |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Fluttershy Leans In | Next Parental Glideance |
Forever Filly is the sixth episode of season seven of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the one hundred and forty-ninth overall. The title is a play on the expression "forever young", which is frequently used in film, television, and music.
In this episode, Rarity attempts to spend quality time with Sweetie Belle, unaware that she's not a little filly anymore. Meanwhile, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo attempt to help Zipporwhill reconnect with her pet dog Ripley.
Production
This episode aired on Canada's Treehouse TV channel on May 6, 2017, one week ahead of its scheduled premiere on Discovery Family.[1]
Zipporwhill's dog Ripley was randomly named after Jim Miller's dog of the same name, and he bears a resemblance to Denny Lu's dog Miso.[2][3]Summary
Rarity misses Sweetie Belle
Canterlot Carousel is a bit of a mess.
- "I miss my Sweetie Belle!"
- — Rarity
Rarity misses spending time with Sweetie Belle.
Sisters and cutie marks
Meanwhile, in Ponyville, the Cutie Mark Crusaders help a colt named Chipcutter with his cutie mark problem: realizing his potential as a sculptor. They bring him a large stone block, and he carves a sculpture of the Crusaders from it, causing him to earn his cutie mark.
The Crusaders' wall of solved cutie mark problems.
Rarity's "baby" sister
Sweetie Belle is a little too old for this place.
Meanwhile, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Zipporwhill attempt to entice Zipporwhill's dog Ripley with puppy toys, but the grown dog looks uninterested.
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo help Zipporwhill - with little progress.
Growing up
"If you still think I like doing this stuff, then maybe you don't know me at all!"
Rarity considers Sweetie Belle ungrateful and unappreciative for the day she had planned for the two of them, and she follows her sister to lecture her. Meanwhile, Sweetie Belle finds Zipporwhill sulking by herself and crying over her seemingly unfriendly puppy. When Sweetie Belle sees Ripley's old puppy toys, she comes up with an idea. They regroup with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle explains to Zipporwhill that Ripley is no longer a little puppy—he's a full-grown dog—and little puppy toys no longer interest him. She tells Zipporwhill to treat Ripley like the dog he's grown into and find new things to do together with him.
Growing up doesn't mean you have to grow apart.
Epilogue
You're never too old for ice cream.
Quotes
- For more quotes, see the episode's transcript.
- Sassy Saddles: Rarity, did we—?
- Rarity: Already hemmed, ruched, and cut, my dear.
- Sassy Saddles: [sighs] Oh. Rarity, no reason to panic, but, um, we seem to be temporarily low! And when I say "temporarily low", I mean "completely out of"—!
- Rarity: The baby blue sapphires? They arrived this morning.
- Sassy Saddles: Oh. Heh. Wonderful. [sighs] Oh! What about the design for the—?!
- Rarity: And done!
- Sassy Saddles Wow. You are good.
- Rarity: And this is when we pretended we were storybook princesses. And here we pretended we were on a dangerous yet stylish safari. [sobs] So many wonderful memories!
- Scootaloo: When is she swinging by?
- Sweetie Belle: Well, I think she should be arriving right about...
- [door opens]
- Sweetie Belle: ...now.
- Apple Bloom: Wow. You are good.
- Sweetie Belle: Rarity, what are you doing here?
- Rarity: I am here to spend the day with you! I'm so excited, I could practically faint! You don't happen to have a fainting couch in here, do you?
- Rarity: You used to love doing these things with me.
- Sweetie Belle: That's just it! I used to! That's not who I am anymore!
- Rarity: But it is you! You love puppet shows and dressing up and taking silly photos and tiny little clown-shaped ice creams!
- Sweetie Belle: Really?! If you still think I like doing this stuff, then maybe you don't know me at all!
- Zipporwhill: It's just hard for me to believe he's not the same adorable little guy I found anymore.
- Sweetie Belle: I understand. But doing things like you used to won't turn him back into a puppy.
- Zipporwhill: So... what do I do?
- Sweetie Belle: Treat him like the dog he is, and find new favorite things to do together.
- Zipporwhill: You think so?
- Rarity: I know so!
- Rarity: The truth is, I know you're not a little filly anymore. But it's just... the last time we did all of those things together, I... I didn't realize it was gonna be the last last time. I loved doing those things with you. It's hard for me to let that go.
- Sweetie Belle: Aww, Rarity! I love being with you too! That will never change! But... maybe we could just try to do different things together?
Gallery
References
- ↑ TV Listings Grid - Treehouse. Screener. Retrieved on 2017 April 23.
- ↑ Jim Miller (2017-05-13). All 3 directors have dogs, so we sent the writers their names and told them to pick one. They chose Ripley. But the design looks.... Retrieved on 2017 May 13.
- ↑ Jim Miller (2017-05-13). ...a lot like @Fruit_Of_The_Lu's dog Miso.. Retrieved on 2017 May 13.
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